The Dickinson press., 1887-04-16
HISTORY OF THE E E
GENERAL NEWS,

The report that Blood Indians were
crossing the boundary line into Mon
tana has been confirmed.
The city council of Montreal passed
Il resolution Tuesday condemning the
coercion bill now before the house of
commons.
David Hoffman, convicted of
w%recking Missouri Pacific train at
Dunbar, last january, WIS sentenced
to he hanged.
The Ascension Episcopal church,
ut saltwater, was struck by lightning
and totally destroyed. Loss, $40, 600;
insurance, $1,000.
The Mohawk river in York state is
rising and flooding the country for
miles. The losses already amount to
thousands of dollars.
A fire at Spring Garden borough,
near Pittsburg, destroyed t%wenty-one
frame houses, rendering %thirty-five
families homeless. Loss. $4,000.
Disastrous prairie fires are raging
in Phillips and Morton counties. Kan.
sas. Twelve persons have persisted
and a large amount of property has
been destroyed.
The p~ost-ofice and general stores,
together with the hotel barns at
Blutfton, Mimi, were totally de-
stroyed by fire ut about 2 o'clock last
Saturday morning.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railroad company has settled in full
for the loss of life and property in
the Rio disaster last fall by the pay
ment of the sum of $Ss04,6l7.
Dan. a. Merritt. of Marquette.
Mich, purchased Tuesday IL tract OF
government land in the st. Cloud.
MINI. district for 100000. The land
is supposed to contain mineral.
The president has appointed Eu
gene Temple, of Washington terri
tory, to be governor of that territory
Samuel d. Shannon, of Cheyenne, te
be secretary of Wyoming territory.
A dispatch from Post Surgeon
Byrne, at Fort Gibson, says Mr.. Blain,
is doing well in all respects and i.
strong and has Il good appetite; no fe
yer or other unfavorable symptoms.
A terrible wind and dust storm
passed over Hastings, Neb., last Sat
urday, unroofing the opera and til,
City National bank. Much othel
damage was done in different part.
of the city.
Governor Hill of New York sen
to the assembly Tuesday a messag,
vetoing the Trecently passed high Ii
cense bill. On motion of Mr.. Crosby
the promoter of the bill, it was laid OF
the table.
The fourteen-inch balk line billiard
match at Chicago Tuesday night, a
Central Music hall between Schaeffe.
and Slosson for $500 was easily wol
by Schaeffer-SO0 to $50. Schaeffer'i
best run was 126; Slosson's l35.
The president appointed as com
missioners to investigate the affair!
of the Pacific railroads, under the ac
passed by the last congress: Rober
f. Patterson, of Pennsylvania; f
Emery Anderson, of New York, ant
David L. Little, of Illinois.
b. r. Hoffman and family. of lie
Sueur, Mimi, while driving, wer,
precipitated over an embankment las
Tuesday. One infant child was killed
Mr.. Hoffman's leg was badly fractured
and other members of the famil,
were seriously injured.
The coasting schooner j. Eppinger
plying between San Francisco and Ma
varro. about 100 miles North. becam,
a total wreck at the latter place dur
ing the gale last Saturday. Four out
of the crew of five were drowned
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $1,000.
Advices from Dutch East Indie.
say that the Dutch had an encounter
with the natives in Acheen on the 4tl
inst, and that the Acheenes fled after
a sharp engagement, leaving lthirty,
three dead. The Dutch loss was
twelve killed and twenty-six wounded
A Negaunee Mich, dispatch says a
peculiarly horrible accident happened
at Lake Angelina mine last Friday
night. \ miner named Benjamin
Marstone was coming up from the bot.
tom in a "skip" in which ore
is hoisted, when lie stuck his head out
at the third level and it was cut off as
though with Il knife. The dismem.
bered head dropped $50 feet to the
sixth level and struck a miner on the
arm. All the miners Immediately
left the mine. and would not go into
it again. \ boss named Sincock went
| down alone and brought I'M the head.